Once buying wine at a specialist shop in Austria, I got to do a blind test of Austria vs. Portugal reds, and I clearly could discern the delicious Portuguese Dão ;)
Is wine fake?
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
The secret is that a lot of cheap wine is pretty darn good. I imagine there's somewhat of a correlation between price and quality, especially at the absolute bottom end of the pricing scale. But it's a very loose correlation.
Not a lot, but quite a bit. Winemakers have told me that they can't sell everything cheaply, and not only for basic economic reasons : if it's too cheap, lots of people won't buy it! As to the matter of price, most of my wine tasting friends (including some with proper wine collections) are perfectly ok paying 5-10 euros for a bottle, as long as they like the wine - some of them have even made it a specialty to find…
How do people react when you cry after taking a sip of wine?
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#264Saturday night I ordered a Tempranillo and my wife ordered a Cabernet Sauvignon, I knew the glasses had been switched by smell.
I can usually tell the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and a $30 (CDN). If I couldn't, I would buy the $10 wine by the case. I would unlikely be able to tell a $30 cab from a $100 cab and would probably prefer the $30 one.
I don't think I am unusual or extraordinary in this sense.
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#265I am no wine guru but I do know one thing for sure. There is definitely such a thing as bad wine. If paying a little more would guarantee not having a terrible bottle, that would make me pretty happy. In the real world I've not found that to be true though.
I think the article gets at that pretty well: > There can be objectively bad pizza — burnt, cold, mushy — but there isn’t really any objective best pizza. Fancier and more complicated pizzas can be more expensive, not because they’re better, but because they’re more interesting. Maybe wine is the same way.
I feel like the difference between cheap tasty pizza vs expensive tasty pizza is that I usually feel a lot worse after eating the cheap stuff. Physically worse, not emotionally worse because I cheaped out of something.
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#266I don't care about wine, but the website is very pretty. I like the progress indicator on the left side.
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#267I don't like wine, or know anything about it, but I once was invited to a blind wine tasting party at a ritzy yacht club. So, of course I searched around for the absolute cheapest bottle I could find, it cost me $0.99. It was voted #2 out of a dozen very expensive wines.
My conclusion is that wine prices are certainly fake. Maybe there are good and bad wines, but you can certainly get a top notch bottle of wine for a dollar.
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#268Two scientific points to bring up about this article: 1. When the author talks about Coke vs. Pepsi, he comes to the conclusion that the reason people prefer Pepsi in blind taste tests but Coke in unblinded ones is "Think of it as the brain combining two sources of input to make a final taste perception: the actual taste of the two sodas and a preconceived notion (probably based on great marketing) that Coke should t…
Speaking of which, “people prefer” is really vague (if not a weasel wordy) in this kind of studies-say-aphorism.
If there were 6 subjects, does it mean “5-6 of them changed their answer depending on the experiment” or “2 consistently preferred coke, 2 consistently preferred pepsi, and 2 don’t really care but bring the vote to a 4/6 majority based on confounding factors”
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But unless you're seeking out that particular flavor profile It's not just seeking out a particular flavor profile. If you want to experience something novel for your mouth and you've been drinking only $20 bottles for years, you will never encounter anything new. But if you try $100 bottles, you're much more likely to accidentally discover something new (whether you like it or not is subjective) Continuously searc…
I don't see how that follows. There's an enormous amount of different $20 bottles. There's probably enough different ones every year that if you try to you can have a different wine every single time you drink and still spend < $30 (to factor in shipping from further) per bottle - though going so hard on exploration without exploitation of the ones you find you like seems suboptimal anyway.
My experience is that the $20 bottles tend to be made to fit into Once you get to $50 and above, they are trying to show you something unique, perhaps an expression or a particular flavor they like or an expression of the local terroir.
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#270I made a career limiting move at my first job when I arranged a blind wine tasting at the house of the CEO, who was a pretentious wine snob. I'd have been fine if I stuck to $40-50 bottles but I snuck in some Gato Negro from Chile, then made sure everyone knew when that was the CEO's favourite. Started my first company shortly thereafter, probably that incident is as responsible as anything else for my entrepreneuria…
> but I snuck in some Gato Negro from Chile, then made sure everyone knew when that was the CEO's favourite.
I'm missing something. What made this a big faux pax?